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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

This isn't a precedent.  Journalists have gone to jail before for not
revealing sources.  This one just happens to be making the news.

Y'all do realise that this whole First Amendment right to conceal sources is
all smoke and mirrors?  The Supremes determined back in '72 that *supposed*
journalists were NOT protected from grand jury subpeonas.  One of the
decentors said that it should be determined on a case by case basis and
somehow *supposed* journalists took that to mean they could do whatever they
wanted whenever they want regardless of the harm they do.

When newspapers, news programs and magazines start running above the fold,
front page retractions and apologies, then and only then, will they get my
vote to give them special priviledges!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rob" <becida AT comcast.net>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 10:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] The New America


> At  7/31/2005 09:04 PM, you wrote:
>
> >In this case, the government is policing itself.
>
> In this case it's the government throwing a reporter in jail because
> the reporter would not reveal a source.
> Big time precedent.
>
> The personal motivations, the name of the reporter or even the story
> does not matter.
> The precedent matters.
>
>
>
>
> Rob
>
> becida AT comcast.net
> Western Washington State, USA
>
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